​​Daffodil: Hexagonal Architecture
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​​Who am I?

  • ​​Damien Retzinger, Founder & Software Engineer @ Graycore
  • ​​Magento Developer for 6 years
  • ​​Starcraft Player (Protoss)
  • ​​Community Contributor for Magento 2
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​​What is Daffodil?

​​Daffodil is a second-order framework built upon Angular that attempts to make building common applications features easier.
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  • ​​Stability: Experimental
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​​What problem does Daffodil solve?

​​Daffodil provides the developer experience that I always wanted:
  1. ​​Type-safe
  1. ​​Fast & Code-thin
  1. ​​An emphasis on developer and end-user experiences. 
  1. ​​Decoupled and Composable Packages
  1. ​​Make it easier, faster, and cheaper to build high quality ecommerce applications
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​​What does Daffodil Do?

​​Daffodil provides:
  1. ​​UI state models
  1. ​​Asynchronous behaviors (Angular - Effects, React- Redux Saga)
  1. ​​Themeable Design Library (written by UI developers)
  1. ​​Platform-agnostic interfaces (Hexagonal Architecture)
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​​Hexagonal Architecture

​​Real world examples:

  • ​​Pizza Shop
  • ​​Printer Driver
  • ​​Iphone Wires
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​​Whiteboard

​​Definitely not an interview, I promise.

​​Learnings

  • ​​What is a driver?
  • ​​How does this tie into my app?
  • ​​Compilation
  • ​​Tree-Shaking
  • ​​Eliminate Server-side Middleware
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​​Why? Mitigate Complexity.

  • ​​Polynomial Software Complexity vs. Linear Complexity